10 Quotes & Sayings By Terrence Real

Terrence Real is a New York Times best-selling author of books including The Power of Now, The Essence, and How to Stop the Unconscious Mind from Deceiving You. In 1985, he founded the Princeton Brain Research Institute to study how the brain functions and how it can be trained to improve mental performance. He has been a featured speaker at Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, The World Economic Forum, Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law, and throughout the United States and Europe.

...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy...
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...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other. Terrence Real
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Despite all of their flaws and difficulties, these men don't want to walk out on their own lives, leave their wives and children. They want to come home. Terrence Real
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Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them. Terrence Real
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...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them. Terrence Real
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We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race. Terrence Real
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Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair. Terrence Real
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Learning to listen relationally, listen with cool heads and clear boundaries, listen with the quietness of the heart and the gentleness of the body, means having a self so developed it can afford to yield. Terrence Real
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The paradox of real love is that our capacity to sustain intimacy rests on our capacity to tolerate aloneness inside the relationship. Terrence Real
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As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure. Terrence Real